Hosea Williams : a lifetime of defiance and protest /

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"Rolundus Rice offers the first scholarly biography of civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams. When Williams died in in 2000, John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Thorough his actions, he helped liberate all of u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rice, Rolundus (Autor)
Otros Autores: Young, Andrew, 1932- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2021]
Temas:
Williams, Hosea, > 1926-2000.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Friends and associates.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968
Williams, Hosea, > 1926-2000
Southern Christian Leadership Conference > Biography.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1900-1999
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African American political activists > Georgia > Biography.
Legislators > Georgia > Biography.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains > Biographies.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Biographies.
Activistes noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Biographies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African American civil rights workers
African American political activists
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Friendship
Legislators
Atlanta (Ga.) > Biography.
Georgia
Georgia > Atlanta
United States
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Ambassador Andrew Young Jr.
  • "Little Turner", World War II, and Atlanta
  • "The defiant house nigger"
  • Savannah's rebellious "Negro chieftain"
  • "King's Kamikaze" : St. Augustine and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965
  • SCOPE, SNCC, and black power, 1965-1966
  • Chicago, the Kentucky Derby, and the Poor People's Campaign
  • The movement continues, 1968-1974
  • Politics, prosecution, and persecution, 1975-1984
  • "I'm and opportunist", 1985-2000
  • Hosea Williams's family tree.

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